For those of you unfamiliar with the Michelle Carter case or the HBO documentary “I Love You Now Die” about the case, let me set out HBO’s description of the case for you to catch up [SPOILERS ALERT!!]: “In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in […]
The Supreme Court ruled on June 20, 2019 that a 40-foot World War I memorial in the shape of a Christian cross on Maryland public land does not violate the U.S. Constitution. The American Humanist Association, a nonprofit that promotes the separation of church and state, originally sent a letter to the Maryland-National Capital Park […]
Harvard University said this week that Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., a law professor who has represented disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein would not continue as faculty dean of Winthrop House, an undergraduate house after his term ends on June 30, cowing to months of pressure from students. The professor, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., and his […]
The recent outbreaks of measles and mumps across the country have been linked to communities and families that claim a religious exemption to the vaccine and to “anti-vaxxers” who claim a link between the vaccines and autism. The development of vaccines, beginning at the end of the 18th Century, had all but eradicated smallpox, measles […]
Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, a resident of College Station, Texas, had been a crew member for Phoenix-based Mesa Airlines for a few weeks when she was scheduled for a February 12 flight to Mexico out of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Mesa flies certain routes for united Airlines. She had come to the US […]
Judges often tell jurors that the word “verdict” comes from the Latin words for “speaking the truth” and that a trial is therefore a search for the truth. But what happens when you try a case in this “post-truth” world we live in? How do you address facts and evidence with folks who believe there […]
Most people think of New York State as a bastion of liberalism and being “soft-on-crime.” In fact, New York has one of the worst sets of rules when it comes to providing discovery to people accused of crimes. An organization I am affiliated with called It Can Happen to You (ITCHY) which traditionally has supported […]
OK I’m ready for the negative comments and hate e-mails. After all who could be against a law that gives more rights to victims of child sexual abuse? I mean besides the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America for their obvious reasons of self-preservation. Well, how about someone who has seen how the […]
I am opposed to the death penalty. While my opposition principally comes from my work in wrongful conviction cases, my opposition is to the death penalty in all cases – even where the evidence of guilt is overwhelming or where the details of the crime are horrific and gruesome. I just feel it is a […]
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